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US finds fever bacteria during war protest weekend
Reuters ^ | 11/1/05 | Reuters

Posted on 10/02/2005 8:54:50 AM PDT by gondramB

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Small amounts of a bacteria that causes "rabbit fever" were found on Washington's National Mall last weekend as thousands of protesters marched against the Iraq War, U.S. health authorities said on Saturday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said several government environmental air monitors in the Mall area detected low levels of Francisella tularensis bacteria that cause Tularemia, commonly known as rabbit fever, on September 24-25.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bioterrorism; cdc; dirtyhippies; lefties; plague; protest; rabbitfever; tularemia
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To: dsc
That was my first thought, dsc---was someone there with the purpose of starting an epidemic? But--if that were the case, it wouldn't make sense for them to release it on their own crowd.

We'll probably never know how this happened.

21 posted on 10/02/2005 9:26:13 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Are all the dumbass protesters now coming down with rabbit fever?
"Symptoms usually appear 3 to 5 days after exposure, but in rare cases can take up to two weeks."


22 posted on 10/02/2005 9:26:24 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: basil
it wouldn't make sense for them to release it on their own crowd.

Sure it does, but you need tight tinfoil.

23 posted on 10/02/2005 9:27:37 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
No telling what diseases those filthy hippies are carrying these days.

So, the mental illness that causes Liberalism may have a bacteriological toxin/contagion connection.

24 posted on 10/02/2005 9:28:20 AM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: gondramB

Kill the Wabbitt, Kill the Wabbitt, Kill the Wabbitt, Now!

25 posted on 10/02/2005 9:29:24 AM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Come on man! You know one of us deranged freepers put it there to stifle the anti-war movement!


26 posted on 10/02/2005 9:29:48 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: basil

"it wouldn't make sense for them to release it on their own crowd."

Hang on, let me get some fresh tin foil here...

Okay, ready.

It would make sense if they thought they could blame it on "right wing terrorists."


27 posted on 10/02/2005 9:29:55 AM PDT by dsc
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To: TheSpottedOwl

"What is tularemia?
One of the world’s most contagious diseases. Also known as rabbit fever, it is caused by Francisella tularensis, a rare bacterium carried by small mammals including rabbits and squirrels. Humans typically contract the disease from contact with the tissues or body fluids of infected animals, or from the bites of infected insects; tularemia cannot spread from person to person. Experts say that if tularemia bacterium were used as a weapon, it would probably be aerosolized, thereby causing an especially serious, inhaled form of the disease."

http://cfrterrorism.org/weapons/otheragents.html


28 posted on 10/02/2005 9:31:30 AM PDT by gondramB ( We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.)
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To: andyandval
"Hippies! I Hate Hippies!..."

--Eric Cartman

29 posted on 10/02/2005 9:31:46 AM PDT by devane617
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

If it was us, we'd have distributed warfarin-laced hash brownies.


30 posted on 10/02/2005 9:32:09 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: Cathy

Censors ? Sensors !


31 posted on 10/02/2005 9:32:49 AM PDT by csvset
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To: dsc

""it wouldn't make sense for them to release it on their own crowd.""

My thought was it might have come from residue on someone planning to weaponize it but on this particular day they were just hanging out at the mall.


32 posted on 10/02/2005 9:33:07 AM PDT by gondramB ( We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.)
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To: gondramB
I can account for my whereabouts at that time.
33 posted on 10/02/2005 9:33:59 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (If you snit at the hand that feeds you, you're probably a leftist.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Like reptiles and the risk of salmonellosis they pose, touching a Sheehan-ite can be hazardous to your health. They are walking swarms of bacteria.
Back in the `70s, their parents were contracting mange, `thrush-tongue', strep and other eye, ear and nose infections, hair-mites and other similar maladies that humans share when in close proximity and not practicing basic hygiene.


34 posted on 10/02/2005 9:34:14 AM PDT by tumblindice (They really stink, man. No man, I mean they really smell bad . . . bummer!)
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To: gondramB

"Symptoms of the disease, which an infected person would have begun experiencing no earlier than on Monday, include: sudden fever, chills, headaches, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, muscle aches, joint pain, dry cough and progressive weakness."


Progressive weakness? BAHAHAHAHAhA!
Progressives are all about weakness!

They got Rabbit Fever all right!


35 posted on 10/02/2005 9:34:33 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: tumblindice
Back in the `70s, their parents were contracting mange, `thrush-tongue', strep and other eye, ear and nose infections, hair-mites and other similar maladies that humans share when in close proximity and not practicing basic hygiene.

Their PARENTS? Have you seen how old most of these creeps are? They are the SAME old hippies that were 19 back in 1969.

36 posted on 10/02/2005 9:42:14 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: gondramB

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37 posted on 10/02/2005 9:45:23 AM PDT by SE Mom (Go Red Sox!!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yikes, that stuff is bad. We have cottontails and ground squirrels running all over this property. They're not looking so cute anymore.


38 posted on 10/02/2005 9:51:35 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: gondramB

It's the extreme liberal plague. Infected libs should be rounded up and quarantined at Gitmo (the more humane of 2 options).


39 posted on 10/02/2005 9:54:52 AM PDT by citizencon
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To: gondramB; Cvengr; Tijeras_Slim

As I mentioned to TS, we have bunny rabbits and ground squirrels all over the place here. Not good.

Here's a thought: are there rabbits and squirrels around Camp Casey's various sites? I could see where you could pick something like this up in a rural campsite. They could have it on their clothes, or on the soles of their shoes.

Is that too tinfoil?


40 posted on 10/02/2005 9:57:21 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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